Barometer of Life

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On 11 January 2010, the United Nations inaugurated the International Year of Biodiversity in Berlin. This initiative is timely, because the environmental movement suffers from an imbalance between its sense of urgency and its intensity of activity. Center stage is now occupied by concerns for the physical environment � in particular, climate change, pollution, and depletion of nonrenewable resources.

However, if the living world is to be kept in anything approaching a sustainable condition that can adapt to changes, then politicians, government officials, scientists, and the public will need to give biodiversity the urgent attention that they are starting to give to the physical environment.

Read the full article on Science. S.N. Stuart, et al. (2010) The Barometer of Life. Science, 328(5975), 177.